Copyright Clearance Center appoints Jill Shuman as Director, Product Engagement - September 25, 2018
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) has announced the appointment of Jill Shuman as Director of Product Engagement. In this role, Shuman will focus on customer engagement and development of products and services that meet their emerging needs. Prior to joining CCC, Shuman served as the Head… Read More
Project MUSE offers nearly 300 ‘HTML5’ open access books on re-designed platform - September 25, 2018
Project MUSE, a provider of digital Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) content, has announced the availability of nearly 300 open access (OA) books on its new re-designed platform. The books will be delivered in a highly-discoverable and adaptable format using user-friendly HTML5, rather than static PDFs,… Read More
ALPSP member briefing on Plan S - September 24, 2018
Science Europe recently announced Plan S, a proposal for the transition of European-funded research to a fully open access environment, in line with the principles of open science. The plan is supported by 11 European national funding councils, joined by the European Commission and the
American Physical Society releases new physics classification scheme, PhySH - September 24, 2018
The American Physical Society (APS) has announced that PhySH, APS's new physics classification scheme, is now publicly available under a Creative Commons CC0 license. Created to provide a fully open, high-quality classification scheme for the entire physics community, PhySH groups concepts into a flexible hierarchy that… Read More
Provation unveils Provation Apex, a cloud-based procedure documentation SaaS platform to increase clinical efficiency and physician satisfaction - September 24, 2018
Clinical productivity software provider Provation has announced the launch of Provation® Apex, a new, cloud-based procedure documentation SaaS platform designed to improve outcomes, clinical efficiency and physician satisfaction in ambulatory surgery centers and hospitals. Accessible on any internet-enabled device, Apex is designed to be intuitive… Read More
PKP and SciELO to develop open source Preprint Server system - September 24, 2018
The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and SciELO Program have announced an agreement to develop a Preprint Server system on the principles that have guided these two organisations over the last two decades. These governing principles include recognising the value of: independent manuscript evaluation systems and… Read More
